This wiki page features resources for considerations and connections between language and YAL, and builds upon our Class 8 reading of and work with B&H Ch. 5 "The Language Connection." Please add any resources you feel would be helpful to you and your peers.
The Language and Life Project -- housed at NC State
Talking Black in America -- website describing the award-winning documentary; NC State Linguistics Scholar, Dr. Walt Wolfram, is Executive Producer
Voices of North Carolina Dialect Awareness Curriculum
PBS American Promise Video: Idris Code Switches
PBS "Do You Speak American?" Documentary: Episode 3 Clip on Code Switching (watch from 11:24 to 15:04)
OUR IDEAS FOR LANGUAGE CONNECTIONS TO YAL SHORT STORIES OR NOVELS
and Ideas for Applications of Literary Theory to YAL [Class 8 Activity]
YAL Short Story "Infinity" by Sarah Dessen
YAL Short Story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
YAL Short Story "Boys and Girls" by Sandra Cisneros
YAL Short Story "Infinity" by Sarah Dessen -- literary theory connections